Being a Crisis Chaplain

Delivering Help and Healing in Critical Scenarios
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-96181-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real-world experiences and research, this is a concise but comprehensive toolkit for navigating the delicate aftermath of crises.

Chapters explore ways to triage emotional, cognitive, and spiritual needs, from the raw shock and grief to complex feelings of guilt and helplessness. With practical guidance for recognizing and mitigating long-term mental health issues such as PTSD, the book also emphasizes the importance of self-care for chaplains, ensuring they can sustain their vital work without succumbing to secondary trauma. The reader will develop an understanding of what a crisis chaplain does and how to act in a safe, compassionate, and humane manner in any type of crisis or disaster.

This book is for professionals on the front line of natural and human disasters and crises, including emergency responders, safety practitioners, chaplains, pastoral carers, religious leaders, and counsellors.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mergard, Lance

Dekker, Sidney

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Beratung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is a critical crisis?  2. Why critical crisis chaplaincy  3. Who becomes a critical crisis chaplain?  4. The crisis response  5. Things you may encounter  6. Critical crisis and trauma  7. Crisis aftercare  8. Crisis Chaplain Self-care

Über Autor(innen)

Sidney Dekker, MA, MSc, PhD, is a professor and the director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Lance Mergard, OAM, is the founder and chief chaplain of ChaplainWatch in Brisbane, Australia.